Episode 2461 CWSA 05⧸01⧸24
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Summary
In this week's episode of The Dilbert comic, Walter tries to figure out how to fix the United States' broken political system, Elan musk fires the entire Telsa supercharger team, and Dr. Phil talks about magic mushrooms.
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well if you were uh if you subscribe to the the dilbert comic either on x or
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the locals platform scottadams.locals.com you would know that wally is trying to juggle his many ai
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girlfriends because if you're gonna have an ai girlfriend what would be the point of only having
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one and one of his ai girlfriends is going to learn of the others and well it doesn't go well
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so that's all i'm going to tell you unless you're a subscriber you don't get to see wally manages ai
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girlfriend haram i have a suggestion for changing the constitution and fixing everything you ready
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here's how to change the constitution if you're a member of congress or even the president
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you don't get a vote on the budget unless you're under 50 years old
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you don't get a vote on the budget unless you're under 50 years old why because otherwise you have
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people who are going to be dead before the budget needs to be paid back you know before the deficit
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so you wouldn't have to worry about um you wouldn't have to worry about your politicians being 100 years
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old because they wouldn't get to vote on anything important they could still vote on the post office
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and you know the national animal and stuff but they wouldn't be able to vote on anything that would create
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a debt for people younger than themselves now here's the thing who would be against that
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think about it who would be against it only the old politicians themselves
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literally everyone else would say oh yeah that makes sense because they're they're basically
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stealing the money of the people who are going to be alive so they can enjoy their final years
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now that's what we observe i don't think there's any doubt that the people who are too old to care
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because it's not going to matter to their own lives uh they're the ones making the decisions
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so at the very least you should have more skin in the game basic concept more skin in the game so you
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want younger people to be voting on the permanent debt they're the ones who have to work on it paying
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it off well there's a mystery going on at tesla apparently elan musk laid off the entire tesla supercharger
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team so they would be the ones making sure there are plenty of superchargers where you can charge up
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and we don't know the real story behind it the the surface story is that they weren't doing the job
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well enough so they all got fired but i've never even heard of an entire team being fired have you
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ever heard of that now it's not like they were a startup where you know after a while you do have
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to fire the whole team because the thing isn't working but it's not like they don't have superchargers
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the supercharger thing is a somewhat mature part of their business why would you fire every member
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wouldn't you love to know what's behind that there's definitely something behind that there's more to
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the story now some of it could be it's personal it could just be personal there might have been
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something that happened that musk just didn't like and just said all right you're all gone the other
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possibility is he said the other day he signaled that he was going to be a little bit more brutal
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about weeding out the bad performers this might be his way of signaling to the rest of the company
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that there's no real limit to what's what you will do if you're not performing you'll get rid of the
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entire team so you're not only uh responsible for your own performance but your team so it could be
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these just uh he's making a dramatic statement about how the team has to operate going forward
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some therapists are warning that when they use magic mushrooms to treat patients
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the patients will often fall in love with them and develop romantic feelings for the therapist
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and it's one of those things they have to worry about now i'd like to add my own uh layer of
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understanding to this do you know what else makes people fall in love with a therapist
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basically the people who need therapy uh often don't have like great relationships on their own
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because that would be a big thing that was keeping them happy if their own relationship was great
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so you tend to get people who don't have good relationships yeah either because their mental
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condition causes them not to have one or because not having one causes them to want to see a therapist
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so you got these people who are generally not killing it in the relationship department
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and then you sit them in an office for one hour a week with somebody who's got their their
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shit together the therapist the therapist has an office and a job and wears good clothes
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talks to you politely never insults you never gossips about you and listens to all of your problems
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with interest you don't really need mushrooms to fall in love with that person
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because they're signaling everything that people fall in love with financial stability you know mental
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health they're they're helping you they're interested in you yeah i'm sure the mushrooms make it worse but
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how do you not fall in love with your therapist unless they're just hideous they'd have to be hideous for
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you not to have a little bit of interest all right so my big theme for today is that trump's third act
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is working out and uh you'll see that in a variety of ways the gateway pundit is reporting that adam
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schiff might have more problems than you think there's some resident or just some citizen who is uh found
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down down to the shift has allegedly uh he had a home in maryland and a home in california for voting
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purposes he said he was a resident of california but for uh his his mortgage loan in maryland he claimed
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that was his primary residence so the allegation is that he's claimed that maryland is his primary home
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when he's getting a loan but california is his primary home when he's voting
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now what are the possible things that could be going on here well ironically uh one of the things
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that it looks like is bank fraud because he got lower rates because it was his primary residence
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as opposed to a second home now let's see he got a bank loan called a mortgage he got a bank loan
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and allegedly he inflated the value of the home by saying it was a primary residence because banks
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like primary residence and they would give them a higher value than a secondary home
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so it's schiff told a bank that his real estate was worth more than it was because the nature of his
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residency and that caused him to save money on a bank loan that's a bank fraud
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this is what uh trump was accused of but you know it's different is that the banks did not allege there was any harm
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the banks did not allege with trump that they had lost money in any way based on any of his uh assertions
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but the allegation here is that the bank did lose money they did lose money that's the allegation
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because of schiff's lie that it was his primary residence when they could have charged him more and
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apparently they he's already reimbursed so part of the story is that he's acknowledged it was a mistake
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and reimbursed why does he get to acknowledge it's a mistake why doesn't trump get to acknowledge
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it's a mistake and just say whoops well no harm no foul it was just a mistake
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isn't that interesting well i would put this back in the category of uh trump's third act is looking
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good what would be the best thing that could happen to trump it would be adam schiff credibly
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accused of the very crime that trump was accused of except that in trump's case there were no there
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were no victims and importantly it is normal business to inflate your value if you're in the
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real estate business and you're asking for a loan so it's so normal that the bank doesn't even look at
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your estimate that's how normal it is because they know it's going to be inflated but when you're getting
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a home loan it's not the same assumption if you get a home a mortgage your bank does kind of assume
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that you're telling them mostly the truth it's not like a real it's not like a big real estate loan
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where they just assume you're inflating no this is the real crime so having adam shift do a real crime
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that trump was accused of but his in his case it was more business as usual is perfect it's third act perfect
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marjorie taylor green is uh apparently trying to get rid of speaker johnson she doesn't like his
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ukraine focus and she made some hats up to say mugga instead of magga so it's uh make ukraine great again
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and she's trying to smear uh speaker johnson with his uniparty ukraine loving ways um i'm gonna say that i
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even when i don't agree with marjorie taylor green that happens i just love that she's part of congress
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i love the energy i love the fight in my in my personal observation she seems to always be fighting
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for something that makes sense from a you know big picture perspective so even if i don't agree with
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every single thing she does it's so just just so good to have her in the mix fighting it out you
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know making everybody prove themselves a little bit just making everybody a little sharper i think
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same thing i say about thomas massey same thing i say about uh uh gates um i just love the firebrands
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it's good to have them in the mix all right um judicial watch was trying to get i guess the audio of
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uh uh well no the reporting on it i don't know who was trying to get it but the justice department is
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not going to release the extra audio of biden being interviewed by the her team uh where where the
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special prosecutor is that the right name uh said that biden was an old elderly man and he wasn't
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making much sense now wouldn't you like to hear the rest of that interview where your president the
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elderly man was credibly accused of basically having dementia and we're not going to be allowed to hear that
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because of his privacy that's right the president gets privacy on a matter of vital interest to the public
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the public gets no fucking privacy for anything for any reason unacceptable unacceptable if you're
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going to take 100 of the public's privacy which you have you don't get to hide a very important
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piece of information from the public as in your president might have a serious dementia and it's
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worse than you know no that's not cool so here's my take if if they're going to hide the evidence it's
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you know what's more what's interesting about this story they simply said they weren't going to release
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it what do the democrats usually do when you ask for their information what's their usual play
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you know what do the democrats usually say when you know they have some information that would
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you know credibly implicate them in something bad
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it got recorded over we we ran out of we ran out of digital zeros and ones so we had to reuse the zeros
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and ones so we recorded over it isn't that usually what they say yeah trying to get information from a
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democrat is trying to get you know blood from a stone it's like can i have that valuable database sure
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sure here it is here i'm getting it for you oh oh i pushed the wrong button it's all deleted
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ah common mistake oh let me get that information for you
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well it was here before i i seem to have lost that information but this time at least they had the decency
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to say that the information is so damning and our president is so mentally lost that we can't even
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show you the information because of privacy privacy
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so make your worst assumption there i think that's uh appropriate
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new york city mayor adams is uh getting tough with the columbia protesters um is there an update
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on that i believe maybe last night he was sending in massive amounts of police to clear him out
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has it been uh has columbia been uh repatriated yet do you have an update on that in the comments
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anyway i think i think something's already happened and i think uh it was a big show of force
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uh but he did advise students involved in the protest to uh get out of the area all right so
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is this good or bad for trump let's let's make this political
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um do you think that it's positive for trump and his third act that these protests are going on
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it kind of is isn't it because it just is more to the narrative that the country is falling apart
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because it doesn't have leadership now i don't know if i don't know if you know trump could have
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solved this overnight or something i i doubt it but it's all part of that you know this wouldn't have
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happened under trump even if it would have so this is very positive for trump now here's the thing
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who is behind all these protests no none of you believe these are organic right can we all agree on
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that we know it's not a bunch of well-meaning citizens who had an opinion and got together
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right it's not that so there's somebody behind it now the big question would be who is who has helped
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the most buy it who are the winners and the losers of these protests are the palestinians winning
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i don't know what they would get from it doesn't look like they're getting anything
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because the thing they're asking for they're not going to get which is disinvestment because
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it's basically every big company has some kind of connection to israel so you can't really disinvest
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so the thing they're asking for isn't real so what do they want what they want is the protest i assume
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or the chaos or something so i've got two hypotheses for what's behind it hypothesis number one there's a
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whole bunch of professional protesters and planners and motivators now we know that some of the people in
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these crowds because we see a few of them have been id'd as literally professional lifetime protest
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organizers so some of them just show up whenever there's a protest so some of it must be that
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there's some kind of machine now of marxist trained organizers and whenever there's a thing they just
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show up and nobody needs to tell them so it might not be organized in a classic way it could be organized
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because there's now a an architecture and a system of trained protesters and they're just waiting for a
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reason imagine if your whole deal is you're a trained protest organizer and there are no big protests
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your whole life is being this protest organizer and there's no protests well as soon as you see one
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you're gonna jump into your car and drive as fast as you can toward it and try to put yourself in charge
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because damn it you've been training for this all your life so one possibility is that it's not terribly
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organized except that maybe there's some soros money they got to some organization so they had a little cash
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on hand that's possible and so it could actually be self-organized but only because there's a professional
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class of protesters but i don't think so i don't think so second clue don't you think that by now
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that law enforcement entities or intelligence or the fbi in the united states knows exactly who's behind
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the protests by now does anybody believe the fbi doesn't know who's behind the protests do you think
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the fbi doesn't know where the money comes from do you think they don't know that the organizers are
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professional organizers and what their names are and where they're from of course they do of course they
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do now if the source were let's say iran you don't think the fbi and the government would tell you
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oh these are being these are being funded by iran of course they would of course they would
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because they would want you to know that so what what could be the answer if the fbi and your
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government is not telling you who's behind it who could be behind it if your government won't tell you
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who's behind it your own government what what other reason would there be can you think of any other
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reason that your government wouldn't tell you who's behind it when obviously they know by now
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we we have no privacy of course they know do you don't think that they're monitoring every phone
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of every activist that the group of course they are you don't think they've heard every phone call
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you don't think they've already traced all of their money back everywhere of course they have
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of course they have why aren't they telling you
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who benefits who's the big winner from the protests
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say it who's the big winner from the protests go on say it
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you're not going to say it this is this is the one time you're not going to yell israel
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israel it's the one time israel there's nobody who benefits more than israel is there
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nobody benefits more than israel because what this does is it takes october 7th and it makes it local
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what you're seeing is a theatrical version of october 7th played out in the united states
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that's the sort of the fictional version of what really happened on october 7th
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it allows the jews in the united states and the media in the united states to feel viscerally
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what it would be like to be surrounded by unfriendly entities yeah now i'm not saying
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that there's some evidence that israel is behind it i'm just saying it couldn't possibly be the
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palestinians because it's not working for them all it's doing is making the palestinians look violent
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and unfriendly i don't think it's working for them you know maybe in some weird way so it doesn't
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seem to me like iran is behind it because if iran were behind it our government would be shouting it
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or at least the republicans would there would at least be some republicans say oh it's all right
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you don't even hear the republicans saying it right so there's only two possibilities that are
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really the same possibility the only thing that makes sense to me is that our government is involved
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some some part of the government and the israel's involved some part of israel because nobody else
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benefits now you could say that trump benefits but it doesn't really look like it was organized by
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anybody on the right in your wildest imagination do you imagine any even a dirty tricks player you know
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because both sides have dirty tricks people right and do you think a roger stone or somebody would be
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like you know known to be like uh you know doing some good tricks on the republican side do you think
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you know somebody like that would be behind this not a chance no there's no chance that any republican
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is behind this so who could it be i think it's kind of narrowed down to america and if they're working with
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somebody it's got to be that what else could it be so is it so this is a diagnosis by exclusion
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so i have no direct evidence that anybody in america or american entities are behind it
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but sure it looks like it i don't see any other explanation
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and so if you take the mike ben's explanation of the world that there's this uh atlantic council that
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is you know led by the cia and maybe they're either puppets of the democrats or the democrats
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are puppets of them it's a little unclear but if the if the belief is that the atlantic council
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this would be a pretty good way to support israel continuing the fight so the military industrial
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complex should want things to look worse not better because the last thing our military
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industrial complex wants is for israel and gaza to say you know what we've both heard
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hurt each other so badly there's no way either of us can win
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why don't we just make peace and figure this out would that be good for america and the military
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industrial complex that runs everything probably not they they probably like the trouble makes a
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little bit more money so i don't believe that these are organic there might be a number of elements
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that are going into it probably there are a bunch of just pro-palestinian people who just say hey
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it's a pro-palestinian thing i'll get in on it so i definitely think there are genuine pro-palestinian
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people in in the mix there are definitely just anti-israel people in the mix but the fact that it's
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going on is going on so long and nothing's happening and i don't know it's a little bit suspicious
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and uh i'm gonna blame my own team first because i can't see past that if the people on my team
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allegedly you know fbi cia the government if they can't tell me who is behind it
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and and by the way i would also accept we're trying really hard to figure out who's behind
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it but it's a little unclear i would actually accept that because that sounds like the real world
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world we're trying but it's a little unclear maybe there are a number of entities for different
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reasons and you know it's it's not one reason that could be i'd believe that
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but total silence about what's behind it no fishy sorry um
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apparently morning joe i hear is having trouble reconciling the fact that the january 6th thing
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was a violent insurrection and fascism for sure whereas the college protests are just free speech
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now i always make fun of people who reason by analogies
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is it fair to compare january 6th to the college protests no no they're completely different
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so could you draw a conclusion from one to the other well you could try but it'd be nonsense
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because it's just two different situations so um i don't think there there's a genuine argument
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connecting them however people are not logical creatures and the voters are looking at this and
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they're saying hmm looks like a bunch of free speech people doing things i don't like and then they
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think of january 6th and they say huh looks like it was a bunch of free speech people doing things i
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don't like now below that of course it was completely different and so what the protesters want today is
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different than what the january 6 people wanted one was about you know disrupting a process theoretically
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for good reasons and the protesters and uh in the colleges are also disrupting a process
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the college and they're hoping to do something that they would consider positive
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so you can make a case that any any two things are the same thing or different
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but it's going to be it's going to be feeding into the trump narrative
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that january 6 was in um law fair yeah unless unless the crackdown on these uh protesters gets a lot
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more harsh including jail time all right one of the protesters who has been identified as one of the
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professional marxist uh basically a professional protest organizer uh was asking for food for the
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students because i guess they hadn't planned well enough to have food so they took over some buildings
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and then they got hungry and then she tried to say no no i just mean for the students who are on the food
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plan not everybody but if you're on the food plan and you're a student shouldn't the college be paying
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you because you paid for the food plan to which i say no starve college doesn't owe you a damn thing
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they don't that the college didn't agree to deliver they did not agree to deliver so if you if you want
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the food delivered well maybe that was a negotiation you should have done before you went to college
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but the college you went to doesn't deliver so good luck
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anyway i think it would be hilarious if they simply let them stay in the buildings but didn't let them food
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have food just just see how long they could make it last it gets funnier the longer it goes um i'm
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hearing some people like nay silver say that this is the end of the ivy league elite schools and you know
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pretty soon uh your state school will be a better deal i don't believe any of that i think it's going
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to go right back to where it was where if you can get your kid into harvard you'll do it
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you know maybe three years i think there'll be like a three-year pause where it looks like a bad
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idea and then it'll go right back to where it was and the people who can afford it will send them to
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harvard and the reputation will probably recover i know i i don't i don't see this as the end of the
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uh vigilantes are finally common in los angeles ucla was having their
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their issues and uh a hundred pro-israel vigilantes stormed the
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palestine solidary encampment at uh ucla uh late tuesday night early wednesday and then sparked battles with the activists
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do you think there'll be more of that more vigilantism
00:31:56.160
you know this is one of the costs of the low testosterone in the united states
00:32:01.200
this is not really the country that i grew up in the the country where i was a younger man
00:32:07.280
there was a lot more testosterone like literally not joking our actual bodies had more testosterone
00:32:16.000
it definitely made us more violent and the the low level of vigilante ism is giving me very mixed
00:32:25.360
feelings in this country number one oh i'm glad that people are so civilized they're not taking the law
00:32:31.760
into their own hands that's good because i certainly do not approve of violence you know of that sort
00:32:40.880
on the other hand i say to myself you know what would really fix a lot of problems
00:32:47.440
i mean i'm not going to recommend it but i'm just saying as a statement and as an observation
00:32:54.160
a really large dose of vigilantism would solve a lot of problems which i do not recommend
00:33:04.560
literally i don't recommend it yeah don't be a don't be a vigilante it's not going to work out for
00:33:10.400
you being a vigilante is a bad strategy having said that if this were my youth we would have done it
00:33:21.760
anyway it doesn't matter if it's a bad strategy that's what your testosterone does for you it
00:33:27.840
makes you do dangerous things if you don't have enough well you're like let's see if this just blows
00:33:33.200
over i can't be sure that the tougher uh tougher actions would be better it just is different i mean
00:33:42.880
it's a clear difference from from my youth so maybe there'll be some vigilantism popping up to
00:33:48.960
battle these things but i wouldn't count on it over in japan they have a birth rate crisis that's
00:33:54.720
even worse than her own and uh so a story talking about the reasons that it's mostly economic
00:34:02.880
but they also have a social problem which is if uh if the two parents are both working
00:34:11.120
the working mother is not really considered a full employee if you know what i mean so i think in japan
00:34:17.440
they don't have a social structure that is supportive of two couples and both of them
00:34:23.600
working if they have kids i think the assumption there is that the mom should be spending time at home
00:34:30.160
because the japanese might be a little more conservative in that regard so they basically have
00:34:37.200
no system to recover from their problem now that's the real story the story is not that the birth rate is
00:34:47.200
going down the story is that there's nothing that's the counter effect nothing they've tried to
00:34:55.040
incentivize the people who are already married to have more kids and maybe that works a little bit
00:35:00.160
you know financially incentivize but they're not doing anything about people who don't want to get
00:35:05.360
married because they can't make it work economically uh yeah there's a photo of some vigilantes protecting
00:35:19.920
the american flag i saw could be more of that could be more of that coming
00:35:28.320
anyway um so japan is like the canary in the coal mine for the united states
00:35:34.080
and the one takeaway i would have is if we don't build a system to reverse it our own declining birth
00:35:40.960
rate don't expect it to the to reverse we're not we're not going to just sit around and change our
00:35:47.920
minds you've got you've got to fundamentally and and really grossly change the system otherwise
00:35:55.040
it's just going to be the end of us and when i say yes i mean you i mean i'll i'll be long bed
00:36:04.160
that's why you shouldn't let me vote on the budget either
00:36:08.880
well there's another poll saying the swing states are all two to three points in favor of trump
00:36:14.880
two to three points i remind you is not enough to win even in the swing states
00:36:19.440
uh that is not above the moc i'm waiting for you to say moc what's what's the moc can you guess
00:36:31.120
based on the context a two to three point advantage for trump is not above the moc
00:36:36.400
margin of cheating margin of cheating yeah i believe that anything within two to three percent
00:36:45.680
would be cheated away uh and that if he's not up by 10 points in the polls on election day
00:36:52.400
it's going to be dicey i think 10 points up on election day unless say the average of polls
00:36:58.800
gets you a definite president trump at five points up it gets sort of dicey
00:37:08.800
at three or two i think he loses at five they've got a tough problem because it's going to be obvious
00:37:15.600
if they cheat but they might do it anyway and get away with it at 10 they just can't do it at 10
00:37:21.600
you're gonna have to assassinate or something you just you're not going to be able to do it
00:37:24.800
all right we'll talk more about that um trump has said uh i think there's a lot of paid agitators
00:37:36.160
the college protests professional agitators and blah blah blah and then the hills nick robertson
00:37:45.520
said this there is no evidence that any protester at columbia university
00:37:50.960
or any of the nationwide pro-palestine protests are a paid demonstrator or otherwise not authentic protesters
00:37:59.920
what what i didn't think there was any adult in america who thought these were organic
00:38:09.440
have you met even one person who thinks these are organic and not organized from the outside
00:38:14.000
even one i i don't i've never even seen that opinion in the wild i've never seen the opinion
00:38:22.720
except from nick robertson that says there's no evidence now i'm not disagreeing with this
00:38:29.920
characterization of no evidence because i think he means direct evidence but how much circumstantial
00:38:37.600
evidence do you need if the people whose faces we see we've now seen a few faces of people who are
00:38:44.240
literally professionals they're not involved with the school they are professional and presumably
00:38:52.240
they found some way to make a living from it so there must be somebody paying them i don't think
00:38:57.120
that they're doing this because they feel it think about all the issues in the world
00:39:03.040
that you could protest about no protest you think that this is of all the things
00:39:12.000
this is the one that everybody's like oh i'm gonna protest this no it's not organic
00:39:19.200
so i'd be suspicious of anybody who says it is organic and i would believe anybody who said it's
00:39:25.280
obviously not trump talks about the hand paint he goes where are the hand painted signs
00:39:30.080
because hand painted signs are a pretty good indication of an organic thing they've all got
00:39:36.800
professional signs and all that stuff anyway um i saw an opinion that the protesters at the colleges
00:39:46.560
will look right in the future and the the argument there is that the vietnam protesters look like
00:39:53.920
dirty hippies when they're protesting but by today's light they look like they were the smart ones
00:39:59.920
the iraq war protesters look like un-american troublemakers yeah but now in retrospect they look like they were
00:40:09.280
correct i would add to that opinion the the people who uh resisted the most in the pandemic
00:40:17.920
look look at the time at least to the press like the crazy people who were science deniers but today
00:40:25.280
they look like they look like they were the correct conscientious um conscientious objectors to the
00:40:32.240
vaccinations and the shutdowns and stuff so the question was will the protesters in the colleges
00:40:39.360
look like the enlightened ones in 20 years to which i say that's not how thinking works
00:40:50.080
there's no such thing as thinking by analogy we just imagine it no the fact that this reminds you
00:40:56.720
of vietnam protests doesn't mean it's predictive the fact that it reminds you of the iraq war or
00:41:02.800
reminds you of the pandemic doesn't make it predictive it doesn't tell you anything about the new thing
00:41:08.240
do you know why history doesn't repeat even though all your teachers told you it did here's why history
00:41:14.000
history doesn't repeat it can't it's not an option because everything before that is different
00:41:23.840
if only the fact that we know it happened before you know something like it that's enough alone to make
00:41:30.560
it not repeat because people will say well we don't want to do that exact same mistake so we'll do something
00:41:35.680
different so there's always something different it just reminds you of other things don't imagine that
00:41:42.240
if you're reminded of something it's telling you what the future is it doesn't work that way history
00:41:48.960
does not repeat now i know what you're going to say because i know i got some npcs in here
00:41:55.200
history doesn't repeat but it rhymes okay i'm actually reading that but i told you it was going
00:42:00.480
to be there before i read it every time i say this somebody says history doesn't repeat but it rhymes no
00:42:07.520
it doesn't rhyme just some things remind you of other things that's it if you if you're trying to
00:42:13.840
say well but it repeats a little bit you know the rhyming so it does repeat a little bit no it doesn't
00:42:23.040
it doesn't sometimes things go the same way sometimes they don't when it goes the same way as something
00:42:31.040
that you're reminded of you say well there's history repeating no it isn't it's just that it was there
00:42:37.440
were probably two ways that something you go and it just went that way it doesn't mean it was predictable
00:42:43.600
it just means that it reminds you of something don't be confused with reminded of something
00:42:51.520
biden's talking about allowing in a certain specific class of palestinians to the u.s
00:42:58.320
that would be limited to he says uh people who are already in egypt so they're they've already left
00:43:05.920
the uh the war zone and they have uh u.s connections so they have family in the u.s
00:43:12.240
so they would have to be two conditions probably three if you assume that they'd be vetted to make
00:43:17.840
sure they're not terrorists but if they're not terrorists at least there's no indication of it they've
00:43:23.040
got family in america and they're already out of the war zone so let's say they're in egypt the uh
00:43:30.000
there's a a report that's not confirmed but not denied that biden is considering some of them in
00:43:37.200
that special case to be allowed into america the answer to that is hard no oh hell no
00:43:46.000
do i think that these specific people who are being considered for allowing into the country
00:43:50.720
are bad people no no it's not about them at all it's about a government we don't trust
00:43:59.200
to open a door a little bit are you with me we don't trust our government to know how wide to open
00:44:07.120
the door if there's anything we know we can't trust it's your government to know how wide to open the
00:44:14.240
door if this were true first let's say it were true let's say they could vet them and saw no
00:44:20.400
connection to any hamas activity let's say they these their family had been living here for a long
00:44:26.640
time and you know all peaceful americans and you know that so they had a way to financially support
00:44:33.360
themselves if they came because their family would be here you could imagine a situation
00:44:38.320
hypothetically in which you'd say to yourself you know that is an exception that that's definitely
00:44:44.960
an exception and we're not bigots we're not racists and this is just an exception so why not
00:44:52.560
no way i'm sorry we don't have that government we have the government who plays games to get the door
00:45:00.640
open a little bit so they can swing it open have you seen our border have you seen our border we don't
00:45:07.280
open doors a little bit we open a little bit so that you won't be surprised when they open it all the
00:45:13.520
way it's to get you a little bit pregnant on the idea of bringing in palestinians no hard no is it is
00:45:21.360
it unkind to these specific palestinians yes is it bigoted i don't care is it racist who cares
00:45:33.840
who cares yeah i don't care when it comes to physical defense which is what this is you could
00:45:43.200
be as racist as you want you know that right you could be as bigoted as you want if you're doing
00:45:47.760
national security you can be as bigoted as you are there's no rule against that it's not illegal
00:45:54.640
in fact you would require it i would require it
00:45:58.240
on an individual level bigotry is unethical immoral unwise doesn't do anything for you
00:46:08.080
because people are so infinitely different that judging them on their immutable characteristics is
00:46:13.120
just denying yourself access to you know the beauty and intelligence of most of the world
00:46:20.320
so it does make sense on an individual basis to just say you're one of those elbonians so you're all
00:46:26.160
alike that doesn't make any sense but on a population level if you say that letting in a
00:46:34.480
whole bunch of people from a country where there's a large percentage of them who don't like you
00:46:39.360
perfectly fine perfectly acceptable from a self-defense perspective so in this case hard no
00:46:48.320
does this uh play to president trump's or ex-president trump's uh narrative in his third act
00:46:55.600
yes it does it's kind of perfect all the stories seem to be pro-trump but he's having the best week
00:47:05.040
and we'll i'll talk more about that yeah this couldn't be better the college protests are
00:47:09.920
totally good for trump the biden talking about allowing palestinians in good for trump the over
00:47:15.680
funding of ukraine some would say the permanent funding of ukraine that's under consideration
00:47:20.640
all good for trump uh gas prices are up again all good for trump it's basically it's just one thing
00:47:27.520
after another adam schiff getting in trouble for a banking fraud alleged banking fraud perfect it's
00:47:37.040
perfect now what what would you expect to happen if everything was going right for trump and the
00:47:47.280
news cycle was turning against biden what would you expect to happen what uh take a prediction what
00:47:55.520
what would be an kind of a pattern you've seen before
00:48:02.240
all the news is bad for biden what do we see when that happens
00:48:08.080
well let's get to our next story see if this looks familiar
00:48:12.400
uh there's a story by uh in the news by uh america von reinenkamp who served as an analyst for the
00:48:23.760
state department's bureau of international security and non-proliferation he was an obama administration
00:48:29.840
appointee at the u.s department of defense so he's he's going to tell us that the ufos are definitely
00:48:37.920
real and uh the aliens must be here we don't know where they're from but according to this uh article
00:48:47.200
that coincidentally happens when the entire news cycle is against biden hmm and it's against that ukraine
00:48:54.880
funding hmm um suddenly all the ufos are real let me tell you there's a whole uh bigfoot ufo
00:49:06.000
yep ufos all over the place yeah don't go outside you'll probably trip over a ufo
00:49:15.360
ufos are not real there are no aliens there's only bullshit and i'm reading this story and listen to
00:49:26.480
the story that he's that this guy is trying to uh sell to us
00:49:31.680
that there was a uh i guess a specific jet that picked up these three entities and the three
00:49:40.000
entities were flying and they acted in ways that you know no technology can act and then it gets
00:49:47.280
weirder as they approached as the plane approached the three mysterious items the plane lost its
00:49:56.320
electronics so it's tracking turned off as they got near it now how do you interpret that let's see
00:50:08.880
one possibility is that aliens have crossed the universe and they're flying around earth
00:50:15.440
and they have a technology that can turn off your tracking and electronics when you get near them
00:50:20.160
them that's a possibility let me give you another possibility that's slightly more possible
00:50:29.440
we know their electronics were bad because they failed and the only evidence that these were
00:50:36.320
mysterious was those same electronics that failed so the evidence that ufos are real
00:50:43.680
comes from electronic devices that we know didn't last for another five minutes
00:50:53.440
that sounds a lot like the electronics weren't working
00:50:57.760
now i'm not saying that's the answer i'm just saying there's nothing about this story that sounds
00:51:02.480
credible to me and the timing of it is a little bit on the nose if you know what i mean so
00:51:08.320
uh there's a rasmussen poll uh i want to see if you can guess uh of likely u.s voters um how many people
00:51:19.840
think that the new york trial that trump's in will make uh people less likely to vote for trump
00:51:27.440
you know what percentage of voters say they're less likely to vote for him because of the law fair against
00:51:32.960
them 26 percent very good gas a lot of you were within one percent on that gas
00:51:42.160
smartest audience in all of politics i don't know how you do it time after time i ask you at the poll
00:51:48.640
you get it every time amazing yep 26 but uh 32 say it's made them more likely to vote for him
00:51:57.440
40 percent say no difference well over at the world economic forum i guess they're meeting
00:52:06.480
um guess who loves nuclear power now yeah the world economic forum oh they love their nuclear power
00:52:15.920
now do you know why is it because for many years nuclear was the only solution to climate change
00:52:23.200
well no but they are coming around on nuclear for climate change if they're still worried about
00:52:29.120
climate change but turns out there's a new reason for nuclear you can't do ai without it
00:52:37.280
there's no way to have ai the the robust you know full industry full-on ai unless we have something like
00:52:46.240
six times more electricity in this country than we have now
00:52:53.200
six times more sort of the minimum electricity we'll need to develop our ai industry so suddenly
00:53:01.520
larry fink and blackrock are saying oh we're going to need a whole lot of nuclear power and we're going
00:53:08.160
to need that fast so what's going to happen because there's no way we're going to build nuclear power
00:53:15.600
plants within 10 years if we started today it's going to take 10 years and ai is sort of next six months
00:53:26.400
so what's going to happen are our electricity costs going to go through the roof because we're competing
00:53:32.880
against ai data centers i don't know um as i try to think what would be the situation
00:53:42.560
um in the age of ai and robots and how do you make money and all that um i think somebody said this
00:53:50.880
before i did was it sam altman or somebody that the the currency of the future is electricity
00:53:58.080
think about it the currency of the future it's actually a current uh it's a current c is electricity
00:54:10.000
because electricity will be the base need for everything that matters you know ai and robots
00:54:15.520
and whatever and there won't be enough so it's a basic need and shortage so it's going to be the
00:54:24.080
thing that you could probably pay for one could imagine one could imagine a network grid that let
00:54:33.120
that let me pay you in electricity is that possible let's say uh i owed you a debt because i bought some
00:54:42.080
goods or services and suppose i could open up my app and say i'll tell you what i'm creating more
00:54:50.720
electricity that i need for my house i was going to sell it back to the grid but instead i'll just
00:54:56.240
transfer it to you in payment i'll just send you electricity if the grid allowed you to do that
00:55:05.440
and in theory it could it's not built to do it now but in theory it could if you built it out to do that
00:55:11.920
you could actually pay your bills with electricity hey i'll give you some electricity now i've also
00:55:17.200
wondered given that electricity will be the apparently the number one valued asset in the future
00:55:23.840
do you think there's a way for you individually to make money from this
00:55:29.040
because if you're going to need a massive massive electrical upgrade everywhere
00:55:36.560
suppose you decided on your own to buy a few acres and then you got a bunch of solar panels and a bunch of
00:55:43.920
solar uh batteries because it's all commercially available now could you build your own mini
00:55:50.800
electric plant and just sell it to the grid now right now i don't think that's an easy thing to do
00:55:57.920
there's probably regulations and blah blah blah but regulations for electricity should fall like crazy
00:56:05.680
if it becomes a crisis and it will because we don't have any we're not even close we're nowhere in the
00:56:12.080
neighborhood of having a fraction of what we need so it's going to be a crisis it's going to happen
00:56:17.520
fast is there any way you individually could become a power plant for your town and just say i'll tell you
00:56:25.520
what you know the the city isn't going to give you electricity but i'll run a line to your house
00:56:33.360
or something like that now i'm sure all of that's illegal for 100 reasons but everything's going to loosen
00:56:39.440
up when you run out of electricity right you can have laws when everything's working but if we run out
00:56:45.520
of electricity oh chamath has a startup that lets you sell your electricity as scale if you're a homeowner
00:56:56.080
so you can group together and sell it well that's a pretty good idea that's a heck of an idea i like
00:57:02.480
that idea um all right so the world economic forum they love nuclear power how much do all of you like
00:57:12.880
being right probably every one of you listening to this has been saying for i don't know 10 years
00:57:20.320
we need more nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear and now you're not just right you're right to the point of
00:57:27.680
survival i mean you're so right you could not be writer how does that feel how does it feel to be
00:57:36.480
that right for 10 years in a row about what turns out to be the most critical question in the country
00:57:42.480
that's pretty good imagine if you've been wrong about this for 20 years a lot of people had been
00:57:48.720
wrong about it the people who are wrong about nuclear for 20 years put us in this situation
00:57:54.560
the the dire crisis and are probably the inability to get ai is scaled up as much as we want
00:58:04.560
however i'm going to give you a counter hypothesis and it goes like this
00:58:10.880
how can it simultaneously be true that we need massive energy for ai at the same time it's true
00:58:19.280
that we can run ai locally on our phones without any performance problems
00:58:27.360
can they both be true is it not likely the ai will be good enough fast enough that you don't need any
00:58:34.960
electric any extra electricity i feel like that's a possibility i'm going to go out on a limb
00:58:42.240
i'm going to say that the projections of monstrous needs for electricity will be uh solved without
00:58:52.400
monstrous new electricity i think we'll find a way to do it cheap so that that's going to be my
00:59:00.640
yeah i know you need training and service i get it i get it i get it it's not just the model i do
00:59:05.840
understand you when i said it i did understand that the training is the big thing but here's the thing
00:59:13.040
i think the training might hit a wall in other words i don't know if infinite training is what
00:59:20.880
they need i think they need to be trained to be good enough to do whatever it is they need to do
00:59:26.000
and we might get there faster than you think now keep keep in mind that we also don't have a market
00:59:32.400
for training material yet in other words if i train my robot with a set of data that i have
00:59:42.880
and you wanted your robot to be trained in the same data is there two ways to do that or only one
00:59:50.320
is the only way to do that to give you the somebody else the data and then they use their
00:59:55.200
own mechanism to train on it or here's my question given that somebody is already trained on the data
01:00:02.400
the the the patterns and the programs and the algorithms i don't know what the right words are
01:00:08.880
that are created from the data are not the size of the data so if the data you're trading on is a
01:00:16.400
gazillion gigabytes once you've trained on it everything it knows can be compressed into you know
01:00:24.000
one gigabyte or something so it's like maybe one to a hundred once you've done the training is it
01:00:30.320
possible that i can sell the trained module and not the data has anybody ever asked that question
01:00:39.600
in public is it too stupid to say in public you know the trouble with a new field is that it's easy
01:00:48.880
to be stupid because we're all just learning ai but i don't know a reason why you couldn't sell
01:00:56.160
the trained model versus selling the raw data there just isn't a market for it yet
01:01:04.560
now if you have different ai models it might be that if you buy a trained uh open ai module
01:01:14.400
it might not work with your you know gemini technology or something but it will there will be
01:01:20.720
translators i mean at some point somebody's going to write a thing that takes a a trained module from
01:01:26.560
one ai and you know remodel you know reworks it so it works with the other ai and in fact the ai's
01:01:33.520
will write that program themselves so you don't even have to wait for the humans the ai will figure out
01:01:39.600
how to share its own programs because that's what it does well so i think that the uh massive uh energy
01:01:49.760
the 30 gigawatts that we need according to larry fink uh is probably what we need based on current
01:01:56.880
technology and current markets but i think we might be even one and a half years away from just not
01:02:11.600
chamath explained how the value of training models will go to zero correct because they will they'll tap
01:02:18.080
out let let me put it this way if you trained um your model on all the writings in in america
01:02:25.840
and then you added what we wrote today how much smarter would it get it wouldn't it sort of maxed
01:02:35.600
down it would learn new facts but that's more of a search engine thing than an ai thing
01:02:43.600
so yeah i think that there'll be artificial um so so a lot of the training is now what what's the word
01:02:51.760
for it they use uh artificial scenarios to train it so the ai is training itself it's creating scenarios
01:02:59.920
that don't exist and then it's observing the scenario and then it's baking it back into the model and
01:03:05.280
repeating wouldn't that lead us to history repeat i'm going to ignore your questions the the troll
01:03:15.520
questions i'm just going to ignore i i think you all know that things that have happened before do
01:03:22.080
happen the trouble is prediction i'm not saying the things that have happened before don't happen again
01:03:28.080
or that they look like they happen again of course the things that look like they happen
01:03:34.880
are happening again it's just if you can't predict it it's not a real thing
01:03:38.800
yeah looking at it after the fact isn't telling you anything all right uh how's trump doing on his
01:03:46.000
gag orders as you know trump uh got gag orders from um judge mershon and it's working great it's a
01:03:56.160
totally shut trump up so now he doesn't say anything about anybody involved with the trial
01:04:02.560
uh let me read his two truth social things this is a total witch hunt hours of sitting down and
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listening to nothing except exoneration and lies the trial is going like a speeding bullet because the
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judge is working hard to make all of his friends happy mershon is rigged crooked and above all without
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question conflicted it's a disgrace to our country they've taken away my right to free speech election
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interference and then truth post number two this judge has taken away my constitutional right to
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free speech i'm the only presidential candidate in history to be gagged this whole trial in quotes is
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rigged and by taking away my freedom of speech this highly conflicted judge is rigging the presidential of
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the presidential of 2024 election election interference
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whoever's posting the the random stuff you can stop doing that the random characters
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yeah just block him i don't have a way to make this private in when i'm going to the studio all right
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so the gag order isn't working quite as well as the judge had hoped um trump is is pressing him and
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forcing him to putting him in jail and it's not going to work because the judge is not dumb enough to
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put him in jail for free speech so i love the way trump is handling this do you
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this is one of those few times when i can watch what trump's doing the whole law fair thing and
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the way the way he's talking about the way he's pressing on the on the gag order and just pushing it
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as far as far as he can every bit of that i like so he paid nine thousand dollars for the gag order
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was that the best publicity ever that was the best nine thousand dollars he spent all year
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i mean it was a great news cycle to say that he got you know gagged for his free speech now i would
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say that the gagging trump for free speech is also reminding me of january 6th january 6 people were
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put in jail for free speech trump's trying to use his free speech about the trial and they're
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threatening to put him in jail so again it works perfectly with his narrative that the system is
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rigged and trying to put him in jail it works perfectly with his narrative that the election was
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rigged because you can watch them rig this election while you watch there's no question the election
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is rigged for 2024 you're watching it every single day it's the headline news the headline is that the
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election is rigged they just don't say those words the headline is that he's he's being law fared
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yeah peter navarro still in jail that is correct so msnbc they're trying to make a story out of it and
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the best they could come up with is that trump is bored and he keeps falling asleep
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at the table how in the world do you not fall asleep during a trial like that first of all there's
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nothing that any of the witnesses are going to say that make any bearing on the trial because there's
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no crime it doesn't matter what people talk about there's not even an alleged crime involved
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no that i don't think trump needs to pay attention and i love the fact that the way he's treating it
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is like so so much bullshit that he can sleep through it and it won't make any difference it
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doesn't make any difference and by the way i don't believe there's a law that says he has to be awake
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i believe the law says you have to be there and he is so yeah he can sleep through the whole damn thing
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if you see him looking sleepy at a rally well i'm gonna get worried if you see him sleepy when he's
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talking outside the you know outside the court and he's talking to the press okay i'll get worried
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about that but no you put him in the most boring situation in the world and keep in mind trump's
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regular life is the most exciting life anybody's ever heard of in there ever i mean he's running for
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president to be president again and he's already trump he's starting as trump
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and he's also running for president every moment of his life is fascinating and then they make him
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sit in this complete you know absence of stimulation because none of it's relevant to anything even the
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facts of the case are certainly irrelevant to anything and yes i want him to sleep
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i want him to close his eyes to disregard and disrespect the entire system and just get some sleep
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and if he snored better oh my god would i love it if he were a snorer i would love to hear every
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single day that they had to wake him up from snoring during his lawfare trial that's a perfect
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news cycle to me so yeah let's keep talking about him falling asleep because that's working for him
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trump also said that uh he warned that biden and his family could uh face criminal uh prosecutions
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when they leave office if the supreme court doesn't give trump immunity is that fair to say
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is it fair to say that if trump doesn't get presidential immunity for what he's done
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that it would open up biden to the same types of criminal prosecutions yes and indeed we should
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make a list of what those would be we meaning the opponents for joe biden of which i count myself
01:10:12.640
the opponents for joe biden should already have a list and they should publish it and it should be
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the subject of an article of what the potential charges would be now i'd love to see somebody who
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is you know not a crazy person do this i'd love to see a jonathan turley just say you know without
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the provocation because that's what he's good at he's gonna just given us the facts i'd love to see
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a jonathan turley say all right well here's the deal if trump doesn't get immunity uh i can think of
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six different things that people could come after biden for even if unfairly so it doesn't mean that
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biden is guilty of any of those things but here are six things that they could easily make a case
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out of and take it forward i want to see the list and by the way if the list is nothing well i'd like
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to know that that would be important but if there are half a dozen things that you could conceivably go
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after biden for and his family i want to know that's really really important speaking of jonathan
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turley he was the uh i guess the guest uh liberal in the liberal chair of the five
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and you know they have rotating people um he's really good yeah uh my my vote if anybody from the
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the five is listening bring him back yeah he's a good ad i like uh um um turley but i'm sorry uh
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jessica on the five why am i forgetting your last name
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oh you know i'm talking about i like her too but uh turley is a superstar all right um cnn had a
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focus group on of uh what they called undecided uh women uh from some southern state was it georgia
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or south carolina or someplace one of the southern states and i think this was in response tarlov there
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you go i i couldn't sort out turley from tarlov that's why i was having a problem with it yeah
01:12:29.200
so jessica tarlov i apologize to jessica for forgetting your last name but it's because i
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was talking about a turley it's hard to go from turley to tarlov my brain wasn't handling that too well
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all right so cnn has this focus group of uh looked like about uh 10 or 12 women and they were talking
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about uh trump and they were not happy with trump and they were saying stuff like he's going to be
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he only cares about himself now i assume the cnn had this focus group because the last time they
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tried to get a focus group of independence they all said they were going to vote for trump
01:13:07.760
and i think there were more men more men than women in that group so they get a bunch of women
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because i think they'll probably get a better result that way so they've got a bunch of women
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and uh it didn't work out for cnn so here's what i saw i don't know how they got so many unhealthy
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looking women to participate in one event but i didn't see anybody who looked like they could jog a
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mile if you know what i mean didn't see anybody who looked like they could jog didn't see anybody
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who looked like they had a gym membership all right so it was a bunch of people who looked like they
01:13:43.440
were killing themselves with food complaining about trump in a way that uh he only cares about
01:13:52.400
himself i didn't hear them say this but i'm sure somebody said he wants to be a dictator a fascist
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he wants to end free speech he's stealing my democracy do you know why you say stuff like that
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you say stuff like that because there's nothing else to say so you try to make something out of words
01:14:10.000
words given that he already has a full term as president you don't really have to wonder how
01:14:16.640
he's going to act and all the things he did are very popular compared to biden so if you look at the
01:14:22.800
actual real things that trump did when he was president and totally pointed this out today uh the real
01:14:29.600
things people like trump's real performance better than biden's real performance so on everything that's
01:14:36.320
measurable and real the economy immigration blah blah uh trump wins so they have to get to something
01:14:45.200
you can't measure and isn't real because anything you can measure and is real trump is winning by a mile
01:14:54.880
so they got to come up with well i think he's going to take my free free speech away
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that that's what uh that's what they said in m msnbc go take his free take my democracy take my free
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speech he only cares about himself these are not the opinions of somebody who thought about it carefully
01:15:14.000
and reached their own opinion yes here's the real tell the he only cares about himself means you've been
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brainwashed that's not an actual opinion from a human being that's brainwashing
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why there are no politicians who don't care about themselves the entire design of the presidency
01:15:38.640
is that you can take a person who's really really good at being selfish and put them in the job and it
01:15:45.360
works perfectly do i have to explain why the design of the presidency by design you can take the most
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selfish ego testicle only cares about himself person and put him in that job it works fine
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it works great do you know why because it's transparent the only way trump can have a good day
01:16:10.640
is if he does a good job the only way trump can have a good legacy is if he does a good job for the
01:16:19.040
country the only way trump's family name can be redeemed from the horrors of being in the political process
01:16:26.480
is if he does a great job the only way and it's all transparent we're going to watch it all we're
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going to measure it all we're going to know what the economy did we're going to know how much money went to ukraine
01:16:37.440
ukraine we're going to know if the war ended or it didn't we're going to know and um anyway
01:16:47.280
so all the things you can measure look good for trump and all the things that are complete
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bullshit like he's going to take my democracy he only cares about himself these are not real reasons
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and these are not the reasons that people who even follow politics use these are the reasons that you
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heard somewhere and because you had a vague feeling that you don't like him and you want to be popular
01:17:08.000
with your in-group you say oh he only cares about himself do you think adam schiff cares about you
01:17:20.480
right yeah you think you can name a politician who cares about you more than they care about themselves
01:17:27.760
and would you even want somebody that crazy in the presidency no i want somebody who has a complete
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understanding of their self-interest and then you put them in the most transparent job in the world
01:17:39.920
and there's only one thing that's going to happen they are going to be my bitch
01:17:46.720
right if you don't do the job while i'm watching you don't get the good reputation you don't get
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re-elected if that's what you're trying to do your business doesn't do well in the future your
01:17:57.600
family is embarrassed right the egotist in the presidency is my bitch because you can't do
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anything that's unpopular i'm watching i mean everybody else is watching right so no these are
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not real opinions he only cares about himself these are things people saw on tv they're not paying attention
01:18:18.320
but they got their little moment on cnn and they sat there full of cookies and dessert and whatever
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shit they put in their bodies to look the way they did and uh it's hard to take their opinion seriously
01:18:37.520
by the way if you didn't know this uh let me give you a brutal truth that would be really useful to you
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i don't believe in fat shaming so that's not what i was doing um because i don't think that
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you know i think there's just too too much going on with the addiction of the food so i think it's
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really hard to lose weight so i don't make fun of anybody for having weight but i will tell you for
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sure that people will judge your opinions on other things more harshly if you haven't taken care of your
01:19:10.400
body is that fair your opinion on any topic will be judged more harshly if the things you can see
01:19:20.160
aren't working in other words if i look at you and i say how did you not figure out how to get to a
01:19:26.960
gym and eat right because everybody else kind of knows how to do that i mean they're not doing it
01:19:33.680
but we all know how to do it well why am i listening to your opinion on this other topic
01:19:40.000
when the the thing that's most basic to your your very happiness and survival you're not really even
01:19:44.960
working on how how would i suppose that you know what a priority even looks like how do i suppose
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you know how a system works or even what's important in life how can i take anything you say seriously
01:19:57.760
if you're presenting yourself as a physical failure and i realize that's harsh i realize that's
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harsh a lot of you are listening and saying oh shit you know you're making me feel bad because i should
01:20:12.240
try harder yeah that's what i'm trying to do i'm trying to make you feel bad about not trying harder
01:20:18.160
to take care of yourself and i'm not going to apologize for that a bit so i don't do fat shaming
01:20:24.480
there are all kinds of reasons that people are the way they are and it's not all under your control
01:20:30.480
but yeah there should be social pressure on you to get that part right because that's good for you
01:20:36.160
so social pressure is not bad right it does keep us at least a little bit walking you know down the
01:20:43.600
middle of the road so that's my my gift to you is that if you want to be taken seriously
01:20:51.680
make sure you take care of your highest priorities you take care of that stuff i'll take your next opinion
01:20:56.800
seriously all right there's an election app turning point uh the turning point action group have an
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app tpa tp action brand new app so i don't know the full details of it but it's creating what they
01:21:13.040
call a relational approach to politics to getting people to vote what it looks like from the images
01:21:21.200
and i don't know for sure is it looks like it's trying to get you to basically be acquaintances or
01:21:27.920
online friends with other people who are likely to vote and live near you so it's trying to connect
01:21:34.720
you to people with like-minded voting preferences so you can encourage each other to vote that's what
01:21:41.280
it looks like it's a good idea good idea now execution is everything so if people aren't interested
01:21:49.600
in the app and they don't like it after they use it then it's nothing but i am encouraged that people
01:21:57.280
on the right are doing things and this is a thing like whether this works or doesn't work it was the
01:22:04.400
right thing right it was the right thing to try and i think there was somebody mentioned there's some
01:22:09.600
other app that might try to get it at a different way um is it free i assume it's free yeah it might not
01:22:17.840
be maybe maybe it also takes donations i don't know i don't know anything about it but uh yes so we
01:22:26.160
know that the republicans are trying to respond in a number of ways to what they thought were election
01:22:33.840
security issues and you know maybe the the mechanism of the election the mail-in voting wasn't working for
01:22:40.000
republicans so they're trying to work on that they're trying to get more more observers at the election
01:22:46.640
places so there does seem to be visible action in all the directions that make sense
01:22:54.160
so so at least the conservatives and republicans are acting like conservatives and republicans
01:23:00.400
how much do you like the fact that the the political right is taking sort of a free market
01:23:08.720
you know they're they're learning from their mistakes suggesting i like it i like it there's
01:23:16.480
something going on positive i don't know if it's enough or not all right the gateway pundit is reporting
01:23:25.840
um that there was a an appeals court that denied a request to um ignore the lack of dates on mail-in
01:23:35.040
ballots all right so that's too many negatives let me see if i can put this in a simpler term
01:23:39.200
pennsylvania wanted to be able to count its ballots even if they didn't have a date on them
01:23:46.560
and apparently that's a pretty big problem that they come in undated and
01:23:52.480
uh a an appeals court third u.s circuit i ruled that the mail-in ballots with no dates cannot be counted
01:23:58.800
so that's a change so all of those many ballots that came in for the prior elections would actually be
01:24:08.720
thrown out by law the ones with no dates on them that could be a big difference now this is a case
01:24:16.080
in which the republicans appear to have done a good and useful job so they took a specific
01:24:23.680
problem they took it to the courts and they got the victory they wanted very good very good uh jeff
01:24:34.880
fulgham is reporting that there's apparently overwhelming evidence of the georgia vote being
01:24:43.360
let's say imperfect so let's see according to a vote data from a number of years 2012 2020 a block of over 120
01:24:58.560
about 126 000 um non-voters typical non-voters voted so in other words
01:25:05.760
a six-digit number of people voted who don't normally vote that's one-fourth of atlanta's
01:25:16.960
entire population voted when they don't normally vote does that sound real no it doesn't it turns
01:25:23.920
out there are a whole bunch of uh ballots that appear to be have been scanned more than once
01:25:29.360
now we do have really solid evidence that ballots were scanned more than once
01:25:34.800
so it's really a question of how many of them and turns out it might have been a lot
01:25:42.160
anyway so yeah the irregularities from georgia are um to the point where a reasonable person
01:25:50.400
i think can conclude it was rigged would you agree based on what you've heard from reports
01:25:58.800
could a reasonable person conclude that at least in georgia the election was rigged
01:26:04.800
is that fair i think it's fair based on the evidence we've seen now i don't independently have a
01:26:13.600
claim i'm saying that a reasonable person could look at the claims that have been made and say yeah
01:26:19.760
that looks definitely rigged yeah but i i remind you that nothing has been proven in court that would
01:26:30.800
have changed the last election um michael schellenberger and matt taibbi and alex gutentag
01:26:41.040
are working together and they have confirmed the following that the cia ran the russia collusion op and
01:26:50.000
they ran it the same way that they run the ops on other countries and that dan bongino is reporting
01:26:56.400
uh and he's giving credit to uh schellenberger taibbi and gutentag he but bongino wants us to know that
01:27:04.080
the ukrainian operation was also about taking down trump and that the um let's see what else and that the mar-a-lago
01:27:14.560
document situation might have also been about taking down trump and that all of it might be a cia up and that our country is indeed not run as any kind of a
01:27:25.840
republic or democracy but rather the cia is running it as a banana republic
01:27:32.960
now is there anybody above the cia is there the atlantic council or barack obama i don't know
01:27:41.040
i don't know about that part but what i do know is that the evidence seems overwhelming
01:27:47.280
that the cia has been running ops on the american people to affect um to affect the outcome of
01:27:54.320
elections and that we have not been anything like a democracy or a republic and maybe we haven't been
01:28:03.600
that i i think the 60s is when it all ended now could we get it back i don't know maybe maybe if we ever
01:28:03.840
had it but it hasn't been here since the 60s um we've been a fake fake country since the 60s at least
01:28:29.040
are the republicans doing better because rana is gone from the rnc well i don't know i mean
01:28:35.200
she might have started a number of these initiatives it's too hard to say
01:28:46.720
i think guys now tried to expose it yeah i think so
01:28:55.680
yeah so everything is exactly what it looks like but here's the thing um did you notice that all of
01:29:06.960
these stories work well for trump basically everything in the headlines is working for trump
01:29:14.560
and the only things that are not working are literally manufactured so i told you about the
01:29:20.640
focus group on cnn of the unhealthy looking women who don't like trump they had to manufacture that
01:29:28.160
that wasn't news that was the news people creating an event that they could call news
01:29:36.000
because there wasn't any and do you know why the patriot front exists you know the guys who
01:29:42.480
march around in the khakis and everybody thinks they're feds it's because they couldn't find any
01:29:48.080
real white supremacist organizations that have any
01:29:52.160
juice the reason the patriot front exists is because there weren't any real ones
01:29:57.840
when when they look for the white supremacists in the military they didn't find them
01:30:04.640
it's all been fake everything's been fake for years everything the government told you was
01:30:11.360
bullshit for years and so ladies and gentlemen this concludes my comments for the larger audience i'm
01:30:18.720
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